Spy Nights with Meredith Davies Hadaway

Meredith Davies Hadaway Returns to the Stoltz for “Spy Night” Poetry

Tickets: $25 (fees not included)

“Spy Nights,” an ongoing collaboration between the Talbot Spy and the Avalon Theater, continues to showcase some of the region’s most acclaimed poets with Meredith Davies Hadaway at the Stoltz Listening Room on Wednesday, May 7, at 6 p.m. Hadaway will read from her new book, [Among the Many Disappearing Things], a collection of poems that commemorate both the beauty and the fragility of Eastern Shore life and landscapes. She will be joined by special guest, poet Deidra Greenleaf Allan.

Meredith Davies Hadaway is a teacher of ecopoetry, a Celtic harpist, and a visual artist. She is the author of five books of poetry including Small Craft Warning, a collaboration with artist Marcy Dunn Ramsey. A previous collection, At the Narrows, was winner of the Delmarva Book Prize for Creative Writing. She is the recipient of a Maryland Individual Artist Award, fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is currently the Sophie Kerr Poet-in-Residence at Washington College.

Deidra Greenleaf Allan has been published in American Poetry Review, Quartet Journal, Puerto del Sol, Poet Lore, and West Branch, among other print and online journals. In 2001 she was selected by former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass as Montgomery County (PA) Poet Laureate. She has received a Leeway Emerging Artist Award and was a finalist for a Pew Fellowship in poetry. Deidra lives near Tunis Mills and finds inspiration in the landscape and wildlife around her as well as in her work with Talbot Thrive where she sits on the board.